unfixing the images
a writing series on photography
On Selfhood: Young Lesbians
At New York City's LGBT Center, Feb. 8, 2023 – June 30, 2024 Read my review of this exhibition at The LGBT Review: On Selfhood arrives at a time when lesbians are actively counteracting decades of lesbian bar closures. According to historian Greggor Mattson, the US had 15 documented
Rainbow LaGuardia Showcases LGBT Stories Beyond the Classroom
Read my review of this exhibition at The LGBT Review: In fact, Rainbow LaGuardia quietly surveys how educational frameworks are only as productive as their capacity for truth-telling. On each participant’s webpage are excerpts from their oral history interview where they share stories often left out of the dominant
The Feminist Institute: Personal Collections
The Joy of Life: Jenni Olson
Stunningly devoid of people, this poetic meditation on longing, landscape, cinema, and suicide is structured inthree parts: Bay Area landscapes; a poetic interlude by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (“in that vale oflight the city drifts, anchorless, upon the ocean”); and a critique of the Golden Gate BridgeDistrict’s suicide policy. Light—barrels